About Siebel Anywhere Version Settings
This topic describes how Siebel Anywhere uses version settings to perform its functions, beginning with some brief definitions of essential terminology.
Siebel Anywhere packages and delivers certain kinds of software using special files called upgrade kits. For more information about upgrade kits, see Upgrade Kits.
A software module that is upgraded as a single unit is called a Siebel Anywhere component. Examples of components include those for Siebel configuration files, Siebel database schemas, Siebel client executable programs for Siebel Innovation Pack releases, Siebel Patchset releases (which incorporate multiple quick fixes), Siebel runtime repositories, third-party software, and customer revisions. Any component that you are upgrading using Siebel Anywhere must have its own upgrade kit. For more information about Siebel Anywhere components, see Upgrade Components.
A Siebel client user that has been associated with one or more Siebel Anywhere components is called a Siebel Anywhere subscriber. The association between a subscriber and a set of components is not direct; the association is formed by means of the subscriber's membership in an upgrade configuration, which is a definition of a setup used by a particular group of users, such as Siebel Call Center clients or Siebel Sales clients. A configuration associates a group of subscribers with the specific set of upgrade components that those subscribers must have managed and maintained.
For more information about configurations, see Upgrade Configurations. For more information about subscribers, see Siebel Anywhere Subscribers.
Siebel Anywhere stores and checks several kinds of version information to determine whether a particular subscriber can or must use a particular upgrade kit. To create upgrade kits that have the effects you want, you must understand how these versions are specified, stored, and used.